Video & Transcript Research : 'reuse projects'

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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Feb 18th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • And so this is just giving them a timeline that they have to get started on these projects, correct?
  • But I did notice, if we speed up the timeline so that the project gets not completed, bonds are already
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Tax, Business and Transportation Jan 27th, 2026 at 01:42 pm

Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

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  • It's less than 1 percent for a $15 million project there for senior housing.
  • And smaller projects, that's the same thing. The bill has guardrails.
  • So, for example, we're developing a small 20-unit project.
  • Madam Chair, Senator, so at MRA, we have criteria for these projects.
  • Madam Chair, Senator, so at MRA, we have a criteria for these projects.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Mar 26th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Large energy transition projects, with Texas positioning itself to utilize produced waters as a potential
  • The authority has been approached to provide similar services to a wide variety of other project types
  • We want to bring more industry training programs that will affect some of the bigger projects like the
  • So, on a scale project, you have to have a DOL-approved program to be in the increments if you've got
  • a skill type project.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/10/2026 - Senate Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • According to the 2025 State of the Rockies Project Survey, 66% of Arizonans oppose reducing protections
  • of Water Resources for a required feasibility study of potential brackish groundwater desalination project
  • are usually requested by local governments or private entities that are looking to build a specific project
  • acquire, or improve a wastewater treatment facility, drinking water facility, or nonpoint source project
  • But maybe Cheyenne, we can talk about what projects you're looking at for this bonding authority.
Summary: The committee approved the minutes from February 27 and March 3, 2026, and then heard several natural resources and water-related measures. House Bill 2013 would require ADEQ to submit an exceptional event demonstration to EPA when wildfire smoke from federally managed land affects Arizona air quality. The sponsor said this would help Arizona’s ozone/nonattainment position, while Sierra Club and ADEQ raised concerns that the bill duplicates an existing process and could waste staff time and resources. The bill passed 5-3. House Bill 2156 would appropriate $250,000 to the Livestock Compensation Fund. Supporters argued ranchers need help with livestock losses and drought impacts, while opponents criticized the board’s transparency and said the program already receives federal and prior state funding. The bill passed 5-3. House Bill 2113 would require RUCO to intervene in utility rate cases when a proposed increase reaches 100% or more; the sponsor said rural customers are being overlooked, while RUCO said it would need significant additional staff and funding and could not absorb the workload without more resources. The bill passed 6-2, with members noting they expected a future amendment to add funding. The committee also approved House Concurrent Memorial 2011, which urges Congress to delist the Mexican gray wolf and return management to states and local authorities. Supporters cited livestock losses and ranching impacts, while opponents said the species remains endangered and recovery decisions should remain science-based; the memorial passed 5-3. House Bill 2026, concerning how ADWR evaluates water availability when supplies are commingled, passed 5-3 despite concerns that it could weaken groundwater safeguards. House Bill 2056, which funds a feasibility study for brackish groundwater desalination sites, also passed 5-3 after debate over whether the study was necessary given existing groundwater accounting and treatment efforts. House Bill 2098, modernizing Pinal County Water Augmentation Authority bonding authority, passed unanimously 8-0. Finally, House Concurrent Resolution 2057, supporting a geothermal permitting roadmap and agency coordination for next-generation geothermal development, passed unanimously 8-0.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/25/25

Capital Investment

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  • projects are not good.
  • going up and celebrating uh that project going up and celebrating uh that project I I I think<00
  • <00:32:05.840> um probably fund a handful of projects um probably fund a handful of projects
  • <00:36:58.200> that maintaining these these projects that maintaining these these projects
  • suitable for larger scale projects suitable for larger scale projects around<01:32:23.360> 40
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I urge you to process it and grow, rather than project it onto others through... ...discriminatory laws
  • I'm here representing the Texas Civil Rights Project, and we are an advocacy organization focused on
  • I'm here representing the Texas Civil Rights Project, and we're opposed to this bill.
  • Alicia Castillo, representing Texas Civil Rights Project, opposed to SB15.
  • My name is Alicia Castillo, representing the Texas Civil Rights Project, and I'm here in favor of SB
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Natural Resources Apr 24th, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, SB 7 expands funding eligibility for water reuse, permitted reservoir projects, conveyance projects
  • projects be included.
  • Uh, we support inclusion of water and wastewater reuse projects eligible under new water supply for Texas
  • land for projects, whether it's a reservoir or other type of project.
  • Um, one of them was the, the concept of reuse and the ability for municipalities to sell reuse.
Bills: SB 7
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Natural Resources Apr 2nd, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 16 expands funding eligibility for potable water reuse and permitted reservoir projects through
  • House Bill 16 expands funding eligibility for for potable water reuse and permitted reservoir projects
  • Treatment technology has rapidly advanced, and projects to implement reuse have become more complex.
  • El Paso's Pure Water Facility, a direct distribution potable reuse project, had an estimated price tag
  • Water reuse projects and wastewater infrastructure projects in the Texas Water Fund.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Feb 7th, 2026 at 09:06 am

House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources

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  • And then allow for pilot projects. Some projects are already underway as part of the research.
  • The projection is, last I read, we'll have 25% less water... ...projection is, last I read, we'll have
  • issue, but Project Jupiter is sort of the... ...of, we have a history around this issue, but Project
  • They're all pilot projects.
  • They're all pilot projects.
Keywords: 996, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Oct 15th, 2025

Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee

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  • Projects such as this lend to that.
  • Then we reuse it later.
  • This project. We just secured a contract through GSD, and this project has a $4 million cap.
  • of water and how they reuse water?
  • We want to reuse it.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Environment and Natural Resources Feb 18th, 2025

Environment and Natural Resources

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  • system. ...backup from a reuse system.
  • So those projects are essential. Saltwater intrusion. So those projects are essential.
  • project.
  • project.
  • Great project, in my opinion.
Summary: The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources met to hear a panel discussion on implementation of Senate Bill 64 (2021), which requires elimination of non-beneficial wastewater discharges to surface waters by 2032. Department of Environmental Protection staff reported that utility plans have been approved, about 570 million gallons per day are expected to be eliminated under the plans, and roughly 176 million gallons per day have already been eliminated. The department emphasized ongoing annual reporting, continued coordination with utilities, and the need for projects such as reuse, indirect potable reuse, wet-weather backup discharges, groundwater recharge, and other beneficial uses to meet the law’s 90% reuse requirement in applicable cases. Representatives from Flagler Beach, Atlantic Beach, JEA, and Hillsborough County described how the law affects different utilities. Smaller and coastal systems said they face major cost, space, salinity, and infrastructure constraints, with limited reuse opportunities and expensive alternatives such as deep well injection or regional transfer. Larger systems described substantial capital programs already underway, including public access reuse, indirect potable reuse, regional recharge projects, and saltwater intrusion barrier wells, with costs ranging from tens of millions to billions of dollars. Members and witnesses discussed the need for flexibility, regional solutions, and case-by-case permitting, and the Florida Rural Water Association asked the committee to consider hardship provisions and funding or exemption adjustments for smaller systems. The committee then took up SPB 7002, a proposed bill by the Environment and Natural Resources Committee relating to water management districts. Senator Broder explained that the bill would increase transparency, improve planning and budgeting oversight, create a gift ban, support local referendum authority for certain ad valorem funding, and provide record-level funding for Everglades restoration. After a question from Senator Smith about whether the ad valorem language was expansive or restrictive, Senator Broder said it would add a new funding tool for districts. The committee adopted a motion to submit SPB 7002 as a committee bill, and it was reported favorably by roll call vote. The meeting then adjourned.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • PURIFICATION PROJECT SHOULD HANDLE 10 IN THE NORTH FLORIDA REGIONAL PROJECT SHOULD HANDLE ABOUT 40.
  • THE LAST PROJECT WHICH IS ONE OF THE BENEFITS IS A LARGE NORTH FLORIDA REGIONAL PROJECT.
  • THE PARTNERSHIP EVALUATED THOUSAND PROJECTS IN ONE OF THE PROJECTS WAS USING TO THE FACILITIES AND REGIONAL
  • WITH THE PROJECT IT IS A FANTASTIC PROJECT. FOR A SMALL UTILITY IT IS NOT AFFORDABLE.
  • CAN CAPTURE THE REUSE THAT WE WOULD REUSE IT TO A BENEFIT BUT WE HAD THE CONSTRAINTS THAT WOULD COME
Keywords: 999, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/20/25

Environment, Climate, and Legacy

Transcript Highlights:
  • is needed if it is to be safely reused. is needed if it is to be safely reused.
  • sophisticated guidance on how to reuse sophisticated guidance on how to reuse storm<00:45:56.560
  • sprayed with or irrigated with reused sprayed with or irrigated with reused storm<00:48:42.359><
  • <01:24:59.840> So cost is part of the project. Correct. So cost is part of the project.
  • projects if the credits are depleted? projects if the credits are depleted?
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Natural Resources Apr 23rd, 2025

Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • The project would use eminent domain to force property owners off the project.
  • Before construction of any project, a new project in the water plan must go through various existing
  • Reuse is a useful strategy, but it's limited. You have a decay when you have reuse.
  • Soz-Brakish desal project first came online in 2016, a full 10 years after project inception.
  • Again, we don't want to slow down these projects.
Summary: The Committee on Natural Resources heard House Bill 2109, which would remove certain long-proposed reservoir projects from the state water plan after 50 years without progress. Chairman Van Deaver and many landowners, local officials, timber interests, and conservation advocates testified in support, arguing that the Marvin Nichols Reservoir has burdened Northeast Texas landowners for decades with the threat of eminent domain, depressed property values, and uncertainty over homes, farms, ranches, schools, churches, and cemeteries. Supporters also said the project would flood tens of thousands of acres, require extensive mitigation, harm timber and agriculture, and that Texas now has better alternatives such as conservation, reuse, aquifer storage and recovery, and desalination. Several members expressed sympathy for the affected families and questioned whether a project could remain in the plan indefinitely without progress. Opposition came from North Texas water interests, including the North Texas Commission, Tarrant Regional Water District, and the Texas Water Association, who argued that the bill would interfere with the state’s long-term water planning process and remove needed future supply options for a fast-growing region. They said Region C faces major projected shortages by 2070, that conservation and reuse have already delayed the need for new supplies, and that reservoirs remain one tool in the state’s water-planning toolbox. TWDB staff explained the existing inter-regional conflict process and noted that the substitute would affect several unique reservoir sites, not just Marvin Nichols. After testimony, Chairman Van Deaver closed by urging passage of the bill, but the committee withdrew the substitute and left HB 2109 pending. The committee then took up House Bill 5188, a brackish groundwater bill. The author said the bill would reduce permitting burdens for wells in designated brackish groundwater production zones, and the committee substitute added requirements on monitoring, groundwater-rights ownership, and allocation of pumpage limits while removing some exclusions and export-fee provisions. Texas Wildlife Association testified against the bill, warning that the exemptions could weaken groundwater conservation districts’ ability to protect freshwater resources and surface-owner rights. San Antonio Water System testified in favor, saying brackish groundwater is a key future supply and that the substitute would help speed development of desalination and brackish projects. The Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts testified neutrally but raised concerns about reduced district oversight, especially around injection-well exclusions and the loss of export fees, and said discussions on the bill were ongoing.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/28/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a rehabilitation project.
  • project of clear regional significance. project of clear regional significance.
  • project, but thanks, Mr. Chair. project, but thanks, Mr. Chair.
  • Our project has 65% of for the project.
  • project reaches completion. project reaches completion.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 03/10/26

Environment, Climate, and Legacy

Transcript Highlights:
  • and reused. and reused.
  • are a few more examples of projects are a few more examples of projects currently<00:55:23.400><
  • At additional cost to the development project, I initiated the objective to implement a water reuse irrigation
  • . reuse. reuse.
  • for stormwater reuse. for stormwater reuse.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all